Title :
Teaching process control with Scilab and Scicos
Author_Institution :
Inst. Francais du Petrole, Rueil-Malmaison
Abstract :
Most process control courses rely on MATLAB/Simulink to fulfil, at least partially, their simulation needs. Albeit this choice represents a standard and rather satisfactory solution, the availability of such commercial software in academia should not be taken for granted. This paper shows that with some adjustments and moderate additional effort, teaching material developed with MATLAB/Simulink can be successfully replaced by equivalent material developed with Scilab/Scicos, a free and open source computing environment
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; control engineering education; control system analysis computing; process control; teaching; Scicos; Scilab; open source computing environment; process control; teaching material; Computational modeling; Control system synthesis; Education; Educational institutions; MATLAB; Mathematical model; Open source software; Power system modeling; Process control; Software standards;
Conference_Titel :
American Control Conference, 2006
Conference_Location :
Minneapolis, MN
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0209-3
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0209-3
DOI :
10.1109/ACC.2006.1655368
